Get an education to get a better job

My first job paid 75 cents an hour and convinced me I had better get qualified for something better. My mom explained that the taxpayers were furnishing me with 12 years of education and I had better make the most of it. Today the minimum wage job has somehow gone from being the first job to being the only job because people aren't qualified for something better. In other words these folks are being paid what they are worth.

Should I have to buy a $5 burger because somebody was just too smart for school? Most of us taxpayers have had it with dropouts demanding adult education, welfare to pay for their bad judgment and now doubling of the minimum wage. These are the same geniuses who voted for a president who has given us part-time jobs as a way of life. Regulations, taxes and now Obamacare have crippled an indomitable economy and set us on the way to at least Second World status.

Now the idea of a guaranteed wage for the unqualified has raised its ugly socialist head. I guess the question that cries out is, even if we wanted to adopt such a stupid idea, who would pay for it? Let's be honest and admit that Obamacare has proven that there just isn't enough money to satisfy the insatiable beast of statism. As that imminent philosopher Jeremiah Wright explained, "The chickens have come home to roost."

Kurt Stevens

Greenwood

ADVERTISEMENT

ADVERTISEMENT

ADVERTISEMENT

Email this article

Get an education to get a better job

My first job paid 75 cents an hour and convinced me I had better get qualified for something better.